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"The next best thing" You're either someone's option right now until the next better option comes along or you yourself are doing that to someone else. Tinder
by fezz 11y ago
"The next best thing"
You're either someone's option right now until the next better option comes along or you yourself are doing that to someone else.
Tinder amplifies being "next best". You're never "the best" option and the best option for you becomes elusive.
It's the uncanny valley of dating.
- grehce 11y agoSadly, I don't believe it is really about the "Next Best Thing" as much as it is about a reluctance for struggle. Real relationships take work and the newness in dating doesn't allow some of our uglier, vulnerable traits to surface. We opt for convenience over depth because investment in another person requires acknowledging the risk of a temporal imbalance in the relationship that most people today are extremely uncomfortable with -- to a point, where I believe some choose polyamorous relationships over monogamous ones because there is a perception of de-risking loss. Hopefully, Tinder will be a fad because even the most beautiful will age and by then maybe aspire for something more meaningful as the tedium of "dating" wears.